. The Family tutor . the sim,and daily recording the result. Fromyear to year the groups of spots are sometimes very numerous, some-times very few. After awhile it becameevident that the variation in number fol-lowed a descending scale through fivesubsequent years, and then an ascendingscale through five subsequent years, so thatthe periodicity of the variations became avisible fact. While our German friend wasbusy with his group of sun-spots, an Eng-lishman was busy with the variations of themagnetic needle. He, too, was a patientrecorder of patient observations. Oncomparing his tab
. The Family tutor . the sim,and daily recording the result. Fromyear to year the groups of spots are sometimes very numerous, some-times very few. After awhile it becameevident that the variation in number fol-lowed a descending scale through fivesubsequent years, and then an ascendingscale through five subsequent years, so thatthe periodicity of the variations became avisible fact. While our German friend wasbusy with his group of sun-spots, an Eng-lishman was busy with the variations of themagnetic needle. He, too, was a patientrecorder of patient observations. Oncomparing his tabular results with thoseof the German astronomer, he foundthat the variations of the magnetic needlecorresponded with the variations of thesun-spots — in the years when the groupswere at a maximum, and so on throughtheir series. This relation may be coin-cident merely, or -lerivative; if the latter,then do we connect astral and terrestrialmagnetism, and »iew sources of scienceare open to uh THE MOxNTHS—JULY. 377. Then came hot July, boiling like to fire. That all his garments he had cast away,Upon a lyon raging yet with ire He boldly rode, and made him to obey;(It was the beast that whilom did forray The Ncmraau forest, till the AmphitrionideHim slew, and with his hide did him array) ; Behind his backe a sithe, and by his sideUnder his belt he bore a sickle circling wide. Spenser. While the glittering dew hangs uponthe fragrant flowers, and humble blades of grass, and the skylarks wild lay so clearand loud resounds Oer fell and fountain shccuOer moor and mountain green, let us hie away to the meadows bespangledwith wild flowers, and admire tlie beauties^aye, the glories of Nature. Listen to the bleating sheep, and cack-ling poultry, 378 THE MONTHS—JULY, • And shepherds pipe, and song of bloomingmaid,Quick as sho turns the odour - breathing swathesOf new-mown hay, and tell me is not tliis a treat the slumber-ing inmates of yoii vine-covered cot woulddo well to enjoy ? Th
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